Looking for practical Sesotho to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Sesotho phrase first, then the Dzongkha translation (Dzongkha) — so you can scan quickly before a trip, class, or video call.
The phrases are grouped into eight topics: greetings and pleasantries, useful phrases for travellers, everyday conversation, directions and getting around, shopping and dining, emergencies and health, work and business, and time, days and numbers. Use the table of contents to jump straight to greetings, directions, dining, emergencies, or numbers. You do not need perfect grammar to start — short, clear sentences often work better than silence when you are learning Dzongkha.
Tip: pick five Dzongkha phrases from the greetings section and use them in a real message today. Small daily practice beats cramming before a trip.
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Greetings and pleasantries
Hello, goodbye, please, thank you, and polite introductions for meeting new people.
Lumelang
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Kea leboha
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Dumelang
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Molo
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Dumelang
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Borai
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Re tla kopana hamorao
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Tsamaya hantle
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
O na le lebitso lefe?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Lebitso la ka ke John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
O kae?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Ke thabela ho kopana le wena
ཁྱེད་རང་དང་བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Khyedrang dang zheyde)
Useful phrases for travellers
Airport, hotel, tickets, and transport phrases for getting around on a trip.
Na u bua Senyesemane?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Ke sitwa ho bua Hindi hantle
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Ke sitwa ho utloisisa
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Ka kopo bua butle
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Na u ka boela ua re?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Ntloana e kae?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)